"Just make sure not to forget to bring with you Mr. Obama's application, registration, and financial aid application." When Botterud arrived in the courtroom, he was approached by Taitz and asked if he had the President's records with him, according to a court observer's report. The report noted that Botterud was "obviously amused," when he replied, "No."

Somacandra:I would just like to point out that Occidental Weekly's actual news story really brings a lot more lulz to this issue:

"Just make sure not to forget to bring with you Mr. Obama's application, registration, and financial aid application." When Botterud arrived in the courtroom, he was approached by Taitz and asked if he had the President's records with him, according to a court observer's report. The report noted that Botterud was "obviously amused," when he replied, "No."

An especially lolworthy tidbit from the link you posted:

"I would like to take credit for a spectacular job preparingpapers and going down to the Orange County Superior Court and arguing this caseand getting sanctions, but I honestly believe a rhesus monkey could have beatenMs. Taitz and got a sanction award based on the awful lack of merit to thesubpoena itself," Ritt said. "And the case itself, from what I could tell,seems just ludicrous on its face."

Did anyone ever notice that when Trump did his ridiculous publicity stunt of offering Obama 5 million dollars to a charity of his choice, that the terms of the deal were literally impossible to meet? He wanted Obama college and passport applications and records. Who the hell keeps copies of college and passport applications? Who EVER has access the to originals, as if the government keeps all passport applications in a secret vault somewhere. No they don't, they're entered into the system and destroyed. Trump knows that.

Tea Party activists traveled to Occidental and served a secretary in AGC with the motion to compel

There's little doubt in my mind that some people examine the Tea Party's positions (whatever they might be) and make a reasoned decision to back them. But a lot of people just need a good solid thwack on the head. Fer crissakes, using gullibility as a defense to racism is no way to go through life.

Apos:I'd actually never heard of this demented birther until today,but it pleases me to do this:

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I envy that you've only just now become familiar with Medusa. A couple of years ago she was one of the chief faces in the birther movement, coinciding with the height of the Tea Party. Then, mercy be upon us, she sort of disappeared. Still, I don't mind her resurfacing in the news now and again if it's for smackdowns like this.

What baffles me is how this woman managed to earn her professional degrees. I mean, those require at least a modicum of critical thinking. I know that one can merely be studious - as opposed to genuinely intelligent - and receive law and medical degrees, but this lady is about as sharp I say about as sharp as a sack of dead puppies.

I think her chief flaw is severe vanity. Seriously, look at any photo ever taken of her. She has this would-be porn star facial pose and to hear her talk is to hear someone convinced she has never been wrong about anything, ever, and never will be. That's why she keeps trucking forward despite every judge she encounters laughing at her. It doesn't sink in because in her narcissistic mind it's the world that doesn't understand, not that she might just be wrong. She's not wrong in this instance, you see; the judge must be an Obama supporter.

"Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false. A crank belief is so wildly at variance with those commonly held as to be ludicrous. Cranks characteristically dismiss all evidence or arguments which contradict their own unconventional beliefs, making rational debate a futile task, and rendering them impervious to facts, evidence, and rational inference.Common synonyms for "crank" include crackpot and kook.

Bathia_Mapes:Somacandra: I would just like to point out that Occidental Weekly's actual news story really brings a lot more lulz to this issue:

"Just make sure not to forget to bring with you Mr. Obama's application, registration, and financial aid application." When Botterud arrived in the courtroom, he was approached by Taitz and asked if he had the President's records with him, according to a court observer's report. The report noted that Botterud was "obviously amused," when he replied, "No."

An especially lolworthy tidbit from the link you posted:

"I would like to take credit for a spectacular job preparingpapers and going down to the Orange County Superior Court and arguing this caseand getting sanctions, but I honestly believe a rhesus monkey could have beatenMs. Taitz and got a sanction award based on the awful lack of merit to thesubpoena itself," Ritt said. "And the case itself, from what I could tell,seems just ludicrous on its face."

On the other hand, she is clearly nuts and I love the fact that she keeps the stupidity of Tea Partiers alive and in the presss.

I say, let her keep going. Every time she gets slapped down and the stories hits the wires, yes, it may inspire other wingnuts. However, it also puts another dent in the armor of the ridiculous birther claim movement. Trump has also achieved that status.